Alicia Rule (D)

Alicia Rule is a social worker, mental health professional, and small-business owner whose family has called Whatcom County home for five generations, going back to a Dutch family farm in Sumas. She’s an experienced professional community therapist, and she’s brought that frontline experience to Olympia since 2021.

This year Governor Ferguson signed her bill, HB 1287, to speed up the state’s response to mental-health crises. She’s built bipartisan coalitions on healthcare, including a measure to stop insurers from shortchanging anesthesia coverage, and she’s worked to bring down the cost of childbirth. She’s reduced taxes on small businesses, expanded housing working families can afford, secured disaster-recovery money after the 2021 Nooksack floods, and sponsored legislation for kids experiencing homelessness, more school nurses and counselors, and her Outdoor School for All program.

Running a mental-health practice while she serves, Rule knows firsthand what working families are up against. She’s practical, she listens, and her roots in this community run five generations deep.

Endorsements include the Washington State Nurses Association, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, Moms Demand Action, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Washington Council of Police & Sheriffs, and Whatcom County Sheriff Donnell “Tank” Tanksley.